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Peer reviewedWinograd, Terry – Cognition, 1977
The author accepts some of the technical comments in Dresher and Hornstein's article on artificial intelligence (AI), (EJ 161 384, Cognition, December 1976), but disagrees with several other comments. Although Dresher and Hornstein unquestioningly adopt Noam Chomsky's paradigm for the study of language, their real point is that AI researchers are…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Generative Grammar, Grammar
Direct linkHsiao, Franny; Gibson, Edward – Cognition, 2003
This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject-extracted structures. These results contrast with results from processing other Subject-Verb-Object languages like English, in which object-extracted structures are…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Word Order, Morphology (Languages), Generative Grammar
